Smashing Pumpkins Anticipate 4 Years Before New Project

Related Tags:

[lastfm]Smashing Pumpkins[/lastfm] will likely take four years — not two, as originally expected — to release the 44 songs off its ongoing project, “Teargarden by Kaleidyscope“. The group has unveiled a few tracks here and there online, one song at a time.

When asked what the recording progress has been like, frontman [lastfm]Billy Corgan [/lastfm]told Spin.com, “Things are taking off right now so much that we’re getting a lot of demand to go on tour, so I’ve got to figure out when I’m going to record. Right now I only have three more songs done and waiting to be released, and I have probably 60 songs written.”

Corgan made headlines recently after he fainted briefly while performing on stage in Tampa, Florida. Apparently this isn’t the first time it’s happened. Corgan admits, “I’m fine. Just a bit bruised up. It’s happened before, where I just . . . over sing. I just faint. If you see the video, I fall down and when I wake up five seconds later, I get up and finish the song. The last time it happened was in 2008. I’ve done like 1,700 shows, so it’s not a normal occurence.”

Just five new songs have been released so far. After each new set of four tracks comes out, Corgan will release a limited edition CD of them on his own Martha Music label.